The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16

women were trampled down by the crowd.
Cornish then baptized twenty-three con-
verts.
AT Mentone, Friday, the earthquake shock
was the most violent since that of the 23d
of February. The walls of many houses
were again cracked and mirrors, glassware,
etc, were smashed. Visitors are hurrying
away from Mentone and residents are camp
ing out in the open-air. At Monte Carlo
the shock caused panic in the gambling
room the tables shook violently and the
players fled in dismay.
A DISPATCH from Lincoln, Neb., says:
" A new invention to eXtinguiSh fires in
coaches in case of railroad accident has
been recently tested in this city, with flatter-
ing results. The invention consists of an
apparatus fixed to the inside of the car
directly over the stove, with pipe connect
ing the two If a coach telescopes or r lis
over in the ditch, the extinguisher Is at
once discharged into the stove, and at the
tests made the fire was so completely ex-
tinguished that not a spark could be found
in the debris after the discharge"
THE funeral expenses of the late Alder
man Masterson were, of course, paid by the
family, but the city is called on to meet an
additional bill of 81 04S.25. Burying an al
derman is such expensive business that it
seems much better to send them to Sing
Sing. Among the items which taxpayers
lence, 1925 draping the alderman's chamber,
S160; gloves, S196. There were not half
dozen aldermen ut the funeral, but the bill
for coaches was S96. The population on
this bill was probably two-thirds its amount,
and, as the same rule has general applCa-
ton, one need not be surprised that our
taxes are more than thirty millions year.
-Nelc York Letter.
A NEW discovery in mechanics was in
vestigated at Montreal March 9, by party
of New Workers. The result accomplished
by this discovery is the pulverization or
grinding of the hardest substances by the
action of air set in motion resembling that
of cyclone The air is confined in an iron
chamber not larger than an ordinary house
furnace. At a test given in the paint fac
| tory of McDougall, Logic q Co., where the
machine has been in operation for six
months past, nails, iron Stag and tiint-rock
were reduced to an impalpable powder,
while the operation was equally effective
with phosphates, mica, asbestos, rice-hulls,
and other pulpy and soft substances. The
device is very inexpensive.
A SINGULAR accident occurred on the
| Third avenue elevated road in New York
| last week. A big fire near the down track
had caused a blockade, and trains reached
up town continuously for three miles Near
| Fourteenth street scores of passengers
clambered out of the cars, in spite of the
! protests of the tran-men, and began walk
| ing on tne narrow plank toward tne STATION.
Finally the train near them started. One
man climbed up on the car, but the gate was
shut and he could not get in. He brushed
against others and upset them. A panic set
! in. and somehow fifteen or twenty men fell
off the structure into the street below.
! Three were killed outright, seven badly
wounded and several others limped away
hurriedly to business.
ONE of the strangest secrets which death
ever disclosed has just been found to be
true of miser physician who ended his ex-
istence in New York city. Hundreds of
empty bottles and packages found in his
room showed that for many months he had
lived on the various nutritious articles
widely advertised in the medical journals
! This had cost him nothing, for he had taken
advantage of the sharp rivalry in wares OF
this kind and had written to the proprietors
for samples, implying that he might require
a large quantity if the trial proved sue
cessful. His name appearing in the list Of
regular practitioners, his requests were
freely granted and he obtained all sorts OF
cereal foods, wines, malt preparations
koumiss and tonics His peculiar diet may
have killed him, for he died of gastric
| disease